He was an Italian ambassador, writer, traveller and merchant from the Venetian nobility. Together with his father Niccolò and his uncle Matthew he travelled the Silk Road and reached China (Catai). He was the first to open the way for trade relations between East and West. It is to him we dedicate our desert boot – the traveller's shoe par excellence, always warm and comfortable whatever the weather, accompanying its owner on the less travelled by-ways of the world. It represents one of our most informal and casual shoe, jeans and t-shirt natural companion, sporty and colourful.Originally from Venice, Marco Polo will be our guide through markets and shore, looking far at the horizon towards new adventures.